Two workers were injured after a glass panel fell onto them at a construction site near Upper Serangoon Road. Both workers were trapped under the glass panel inside a container at Lowland Road. One of the workers managed to scramble out of the container before officers from the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) arrived. He suffered cuts on his left wrist and was sent to a hospital. SCDF officers had...
Construction Accidents
A 30-year-old Malaysian worker died in an industrial accident on Pulau Ular, south of Singapore, on Saturday. The accident occurred at the Shell Eastern Petroleum's construction site for a petrochemical cracker which is part of a refinery. Police said they received a call at 11am on Saturday. On arrival, they found the body of the worker from Sarawak on the ground near a boom lift. The worker was...
The number of deaths at the workplace went down by 22 per cent in 2007, compared to the previous year. This is according to a report released by the Workplace Safety and Health Advisory Committee. Despite the drop, industry players caution that the boom in the construction industry may mean more workplace-related accidents. When the crane tower collapsed at the National University of Singapore last month,...